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A bear attacked a Spanish tourist in a Japanese village popular with visitors, a local official said Monday, days after another mauling left one woman dead and another missing. More and more wild ...

A Spanish tourist was injured after a bear attacked him at the Unesco World Heritage site of Shirakawa-go in Japan’s Gifu prefecture on Sunday morning, local authorities said. The man received a minor ...